Explore More

"We know this: the super rich and corporations don’t need a tax cut. The 1 percent are doing just fine."

The tax debate undersells the impact of this current debate on working-class communities, and misses part of why the GOP tax plan is so radical.

DC Fair Elections Act would reign in the influence of big money in our local elections.

The Republican tax plans proposed by the House and Senate uphold the status quo fossil fuel economy and threaten the health of communities.

While some fairly valuable tax breaks for students have been kept from the chopping block, the Senate GOP’s tax bill could go a long way toward decimating funding for public colleges and universities, and community colleges in particular.

President Trump should follow the letter of the law and allow the Senate to confirm a new Director of the CFPB. 

Last year, Americans took over 10 billion trips on public transportation. These were trips to work, to school, to stores, to health care, to places of worship, and elsewhere. For millions of Americans, their quality of life rests on the quality of public transit.

“You hear the apocryphal story of being able to work your way through school, because it was true,” said Mark Huelsman, a senior policy analyst at Demos, a left-leaning think tank. “If you were a student in 1980 and you took on a full-time summer job and a part-time job in the school year, your

Demos, a liberal think tank, and the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University found African Americans are far more likely to have student debt , regardless of income. Black families, after decades of being shut out of traditional ladders of economic opportunity, have the fewest

This report presents findings on the use of public transit by people of color and on the potential jobs benefits that people of color can gain from investments in public transit.